============================================================================== VARIATION: unmerge_d6_10 [metric: success RATE (success/attempts)] ============================================================================== model: behavior ~ stim + day + stim:day + (1|rat) (behavior = success RATE (success/attempts)) day = training day within window (0 = first analyzed day) treatment (stim=1): Electrode-Box-B2 control (stim=0): Electrode-Box-A2 N = 5 rats, 25 sessions raw day coverage: treat 6..10, control 6..10 (equal day coverage over this window) ============================================================================== FULL MODEL SUMMARY -- fitlme ============================================================================== Linear mixed-effects model fit by ML Model information: Number of observations 25 Fixed effects coefficients 4 Random effects coefficients 5 Covariance parameters 2 Formula: behavior ~ 1 + day*stim + (1 | rat) Model fit statistics: AIC BIC LogLikelihood Deviance -55.071 -47.758 33.535 -67.071 Fixed effects coefficients (95% CIs): Name Estimate SE tStat DF pValue {'(Intercept)'} 0.52619 0.041587 12.653 21 2.7251e-11 {'day' } 0.0099391 0.012456 0.79797 21 0.43382 {'stim' } 0.11742 0.053689 2.187 21 0.040203 {'day:stim' } 0.0022606 0.01608 0.14058 21 0.88954 Lower Upper 0.4397 0.61267 -0.015964 0.035842 0.0057634 0.22907 -0.03118 0.035701 Random effects covariance parameters (95% CIs): Group: rat (5 Levels) Name1 Name2 Type Estimate {'(Intercept)'} {'(Intercept)'} {'std'} 0.039966 Lower Upper 0.016761 0.095298 Group: Error Name Estimate Lower Upper {'Res Std'} 0.055703 0.040859 0.075939 effect t(df) / F(df1) p (resid) Satterthwaite: p (df) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- stim x day (interaction) t(21)= 0.14 F(1)= 0.020 p=0.8895 p=0.8896 (df=20) day (learning) t(21)= 0.80 F(1)= 0.637 p=0.4338 p=0.4343 (df=20) stim (main, window start) t(21)= 2.19 F(1)= 4.783 p=0.0402 p=0.05066 (df=11) interaction 95% CI: [-0.03118, +0.0357] HONEST LME (per-animal random slope, day|rat): interaction F(1,5.0)=0.01, p=0.9219 (Satterthwaite DF ~= residual on this random-intercept model; the random-slope model above is the honest learning-rate test -- DF collapses toward the animal count.) INTERPRETATION: stim x day interaction n.s. -- slopes parallel (no differential learning rate) (p=0.8895, slope diff=+0.002261) Paper (N=24, count): interaction t(227)=2.68, F(1)=7.12, p=0.008.